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I have been helping customers over the past years on how to choose the alarms to best suit their needs and perfectly fit their pocket. There are a wide variety of burglar alarm brands available in the market. First let us decide on wired or wireless alarms.

Pros and Cons of wired and wireless alarms

Pros & Cons

Wired Alarms

Wireless Alarms

Conclusion

Cost

Intruder Alarm control panel and associated devices are cheaper but there is additional cost involved in labour as it takes double the time to fit an alike wireless alarm

All devices in a wireless burglar alarm system is more expensive than wired one but are easy to install. So labour cost can be waved off

No much difference.

Maintenance

The back up battery in the control panel and siren needs to be changed and tested every 3-4 years

There is a bit of saving in this regard as wireless alarms has to be serviced every 2 years

Can save a bit on wired in this regard

Decor

There can be a sight of trunking or cables around the corners if cables are not run internally. But, the sleek design of the siren and control panel are really mind blowing if your choose Risco LightSys wired alarm.

Perfect finish and no harm to the décor of your house

Here, the winner is wireless home security system.

Performance

Meets British Standards

Meets British Standards

Equal weightage

False Alarms

Equally reliable, but can trigger false alarm due to power failure if the alarm isn’t maintained regularly.

Wireless Alarm that function on 868MHz frequency are less prone to false alarms. Read our blog on how to stop false alarms

Both are Reliable

Security

Wired Alarms gives tamper alerts if a wire is cut even accidently. An installer has to come and fix this before the system is ready for use again.

Easy to add additional sensors to the existing home alarm system in future

Wireless saves a bit of money here.

So now we have decided on wired and wireless alarm, let us move on to security alarm features. More feature, more money. The price range in the table below includes the product cost and professional installation fee.

Feature

Supports

Price

Brands

Bell Only – Alert an incident by sounding the siren

Wired & Wireless

£

Yale

Bell + Telephone Alert – Alerts the designated person and few other numbers through pre-recorded messages at the time of an event through phone call from your landline.

Wired & Wireless

££

Yale

Visonic

Pyronix

Bell + Mobile Alert – Alerts the designated person and few other numbers through pre-recorded messages at the time of an event through phone call from a SIM installed in the system control panel.

Bell + Call Alert + Messages + Smart phone App + Camera Sensors to identify what triggered the alarm or even get a picture of the what happened at the time of alarm

Wireless

£££

Yale

Visonic

Pyronix

Risco

Here Yale is a diy option and doesn’t meet British Standards while all other systems need to be professionally installed by a trained engineer. Don’t worry if you are not a diy expert, we can install them for you.

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